Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Lloyd Garrison

In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine.

William Lloyd Garrison

I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.

William Lloyd Garrison

Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?

William C. Bryant

Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again.

William Butler Yeats

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

William Butler Yeats

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

William Butler Yeats

How can they know Truth flourishes where the student's lamp has shone, And there alone, that have no solitude? So the crowd come they care not what may come. They have loud music, hope every day renewed And heartier loves; that lamp is from the tomb.

William Butler Yeats

Bodies of holy men and women exude Miraculous oil, odour of violet. But under heavy loads of trampled clay Lie bodies of the vampires full of blood; Their shrouds are bloody and their lips are wet.

William Butler Yeats

Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call.

William Butler Yeats

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

William Butler Yeats

I long for truth, and yet I cannot stay from that My better self disowns, For a man's attention Brings such satisfaction To the craving in my bones.

William Butler Yeats

I have mummy truths to tell Whereat the living mock, Though not for sober ear, For maybe all that hear Should laugh and weep an hour upon the clock.

Walter Scott

I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.

Walter Scott

Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.

William Kingdon Clifford

Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can ideally contemplate without error, but that which we may act upon without fear; and you cannot fail to see that scientific thought is not an accompaniment or condition of human progress, but human progress itself.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number.

Tristan Wilds

Finding out the truth is only half of it. It's what you do with it that matters.

Vince Vaughn

It's really nice that the truth can finally come out.

Vince Lombardi

Morally, the life of the organization must be of exemplary nature. This is one phase where the organization must not have criticism.

Vince Lombardi

The object is to win fairly, by the rules - but to win.

Vince Lombardi

Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Robert Graves

Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Nothing but truth is immortal.

Robert Green Ingersoll

It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle.

Robert Green Ingersoll

All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, - never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves. Truth cannot be affected by opinions; it cannot be changed, established, or affected by martyrdom. An error cannot be believed sincerely enough to make it a truth.

Samuel Johnson

The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words.

Samuel Johnson

Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

Samuel Johnson

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth.

Samuel Johnson

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

Samuel Johnson

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

Samuel Johnson

In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Rowan Williams

I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process.